Problem with old Person Documents Replicating Back In
Fri, Mar 20th 2009 5:49a Michael V Brown I was talking to a customer recently who had an issue where old person documents kept replicating back into the Directory. In our conversation to find a way to stop this from happening, the following ideas came up as possible solutions. Just wanted to share our thoughts with everyone in case you find yourself with the same issue. Option 1: Set up Deny Access List for Servers: Everyone has a Terminations Group for users as they are removed from the Domino Directory. This prevents someon [read] Keywords: acl
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Notes 8: How the Help About Dialog pulls data
Tue, Mar 17th 2009 4:04p Michael V Brown Here's a screen shot from my Notes install which I manually modified. Can you guess which version of Notes am I running? More important, how did I do this? The "Help - About" Dialog pulls the version numbers from two different locations. First, C:\...\Notes\framework\shared\eclipse\plugins\com.ibm.notes.client_8.0.2.20080809-0430\about.mappings (if a hotfix is installed the folder will most likely contain the hotfix version like "\...\com.ibm.notes.client_8.0.2.20080809-0430-CCH3\ [read] Keywords: expeditor
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"Skin" your Notes Workspace
Fri, Apr 25th 2008 8:52a Michael V Brown For those who haven't seen this, you can apply a "skin" theme to your Notes Workspace page. http://blog.panagenda.com/pub/panablog.nsf/d6plinks/FLOR-7DRBHC It's also very easy to customize. http://blog.panagenda.com/pub/panablog.nsf/d6plinks/FLOR-7DRDTE [read] Keywords: notes
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How to control the Fan speed on your Thinkpad
Thu, Mar 20th 2008 11:12a Michael V Brown I recently kept experiencing my Thinkpad T60p getting very hot and occasionally locking up when playing certain games. I found a program that would allow me to control of the fan speed so I can increase the RPMs. http://sourceforge.net/projects/tp4xfancontrol/ Please read the readme.txt file first as the developer explains some of the settings in the INI file. [read] Keywords:
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Technote 1099635 - Which Domino Server databases have replica IDs related to names.nsf
Mon, Mar 10th 2008 9:59a Michael V Brown I came across this technote and did not realize the pattern that exists for certain database replica IDs that are similiar to Domino Directory's replica ID. Thought I would share. http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21099635 The replica IDs of some Lotus Domino® server databases are related to that of the Domino Directory (names.nsf). Which ones are related and which ones are not? The following is a list of Domino server databases that have a known replica ID based on the [read] Keywords: admin
, domino
, ibm
, lotus
, notes
, sametime
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Do you Bleed Yellow?
Fri, Mar 7th 2008 10:44a Michael V Brown A fellow NotesNerd told me about this site and I wanted to share it with everyone else. Do you BLEED YELLOW? www.bleedyellow.com This was also mentioned on Alan's blog. http://www.alanlepofsky.net/alepofsky/alanblog.nsf/dx/chat-with-others-whom-bleed-yellow [read] Keywords: admin
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LScript to Check for Domino Server "Slow" Downs
Fri, Feb 1st 2008 4:42p Michael V Brown Have you ever had end users report the Domino Server is responding slow but by the time they call you the Server is no longer slow? I recently encountered this issue with a customer and wrote the following LotusScript to try and prove when a server is responding slow. The LotusScript will go into a Loop trying to open a database on the server, report the time duration to open in seconds and then sleep for so many seconds. The idea is every 5 seconds you try to open the names.nsf, record h [read] Keywords: admin
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SNTT - How to find Person Docs without Mail Files
Thu, Jan 24th 2008 7:00a Michael V Brown If you have ever experienced a problem with old Person Documents replicating back into your Domino Directory, you know how much of a pain it can be to identify them. Here's a quick LotusScript that will check for the mail file specified in the Person Document and create a document in the database if either the mail file can not be found or if the User ID the agent is ran under doesn't have access to the mail file. The agent can either flag the Person Document by adding a field to it. This [read] Keywords: acl
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Some nice information on Mass emails
Mon, Nov 19th 2007 4:09a Michael V Brown Here's a technote about how to handle an issue you might see on Domino when sending mass emails through your servers. Sometimes mass emails are sent by the Administrator to notify everyone; however, sometimes end users have been known to send very large emails to several hundred people and not realize the impact they cause. Then they start a massive chain reaction when people keep choosing "Reply to All" instead of just "Reply". Technote 1227966: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss? [read] Keywords: administration
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, notes
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Slowing Opening Mail File after AdminP Rename - Regression in 7.0.2
Fri, Nov 16th 2007 5:49a Michael V Brown Came across what I consider to be a critical regression issue this week. The issue first appeared in 6.5.x code and was fixed in 6.5.2. The issue appears to be back in 7.0.1 and 7.0.2. I discovered this while onsite with a customer when users were complaining about how their Notes Client hangs for 1 to 2 minutes when moving an email from the inbox into a folder. We resigned their folders with a different name and the problem was immediatly resovled. Please be aware of this when renaming use [read] Keywords: admin
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How to switch between Notes 8 "Eclipse" and Notes 8 Basic Client quickly
Thu, Sep 20th 2007 2:00a Michael V Brown For those of you just getting around to installing the Notes 8 Client, you will need to ask yourself do I install the Notes 8 Client running on the Eclipse Framework or do I install the "Basic" Notes 8 Client which has no Eclipse Framework. If your wondering how much bigger the Eclipse Notes 8 Client is, here are some quick metrics to consider. Size of Install Package Notes 8 Eclipse: 450megs Size of Install Package Notes 8 Basic: 184 megs Time to Launch Notes 8 Eclipse: 10+ seconds [read] Keywords: notes
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Updated Notes 8 Designer Column Icons
Thu, Sep 20th 2007 2:00a Michael V Brown With the recent release of Notes 8, it was discovered that the Help File showing the icons available to be displayed in a column was not updated. Here is an updated screen shot of a the new icons that are available to be used in a Column. [read] Keywords: designer
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How to Restart any Domino Server Task
Fri, Sep 14th 2007 11:07a Michael V Brown For many of us, we all know you can issue a "TELL HTTP RESTART" to quit and reload the Domino HTTP Task. However, issuing a "TELL ROUTER RESTART" will not work. For those people who have been around Domino to long and quit reading about all the new little features that are introduced, I just came across something that was introduced in Domino 6 and decided to share it since another long time Domino Admin of 10 years did not realize this new command was new available. Starting in Domino 6, [read] Keywords: admin
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How to blend your IT Infrastructure
Tue, Jul 17th 2007 1:06p Michael V Brown This video says it all, "How to Blend you IT Infrastructure" http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe&video=novell [read] Keywords:
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SNTT: How to quickly check your Mail File Size
Fri, Jul 13th 2007 7:03a Michael V Brown Ever wanted a quick way to check your mail file size? Here's an easy button you can place in an action bar to allow the end user to quickly get an idea of how large their mail file is including the percentage of whitespace without having to open the database properties infobox. I placed my button as an action in the Form "Switcher Form for Mail" so it appears in the top left corner of my mail file where you switch between Mail, Calendar and Todos. You can place it anywhere. The LotusScript [read] Keywords: admin
, lotus
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SNTT: Track who is deleting documents
Fri, Jul 13th 2007 6:47a Michael V Brown The question will eventually come up, who deleted this document from the database. Well, if you are familiar with deletion stubs and tracking the Universal ID from the document to the deletion stub, you know that you are only able to determine when a document was deleted and not who. Multiple times now I had reports from customers that "Domino is deleting my email again". After troubleshooting and monitoring it has always been discovered that the Administrative Assistant was cleaning up the E [read] Keywords: admin
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, domino
, lotus
, lotusscript
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SnTT: Domino 7 Heads Up with new RnRMgr task
Thu, Apr 19th 2007 6:00a Michael V Brown Just a heads up for those of you recently or about to upgrade to Domino 7. With the introduction of the new RnRMgr task to help manage Rooms and Resources, I've discovered an interesting dilemma that can occur. The RnRMgr task requires that the busytime.nsf exist. If you have a habit during maintenance of deleting busytime.nsf and letting it rebuild, you will probably notice sometimes the RnRMgr tasks errors our and fails to load. The reason is because when the busytime.nsf does not exist, [read] Keywords: admin
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From a Strictly Mathematical Viewpoint
Mon, Apr 9th 2007 7:48a Michael V Brown From a strictly Mathematical Viewpoint: What Equals 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? We have all been in situations where someone wants you to give over 100%. How about achieving 101%? What equals 100% in life? Here's a little mathematical formula that might help you answer these Questions: If: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Is represented as: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 [read] Keywords: formula
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Updated DB to Collect Stats and Config v1.2
Sun, Mar 18th 2007 7:30p Michael V Brown Update on the Database to Collect Stats and Config for your Domino Servers. Been testing and found a few problems. Addressed them in this version along with some minor other changes. Main thing is I found that the SH STAT command would return more than 32K of data for a text field on certain servers so I had to change that to a Rich Text Field. I made the same change for SH CONFIG as well just in case that command grows over time. If you find the tool useful, please leave feedback. If y [read] Keywords: admin
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Updated Agents (version 3) for DST Issue
Tue, Feb 6th 2007 6:15a Michael V Brown Here are the updated technotes on the DST issue. This is version 3 of the DST Update Agent. There is a version 4 of the agent that is in the works and should be posted sometime this week. The version 4 agent will reschedule the calendar entries without kicking off reschedule notices to participants. Executive Summary and End User Guide: Daylight Saving Time (DST) 2007 http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=463&uid=swg21254625 Contains information to help IT System Administrators a [read] Keywords: admin
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SnTT: Who voted for the DST change?
Thu, Jan 18th 2007 2:02p Michael V Brown With all the communication currently about the changes in the DST rules for 2007, here is a great site to see which members of the House and Representatives and which members of the Senate voted for it. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h109-6 [read] Keywords: sntt
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SnTT: INI Parameter to speed up outbound Mail Routing
Thu, Jan 4th 2007 12:00a Michael V Brown I was working on a request for a customer and came across a technote that I wanted to share with everyone. The request from the customer was something like this: "We upgraded the hardware on our outbound SMTP Domino Server last night. The hardware is 3 times as fast as the old box but Domino doesn't appear to be routing email out to internet any faster. This box's only job is to route mail to the internet, when you look at the console I want to think I'm watching the Matrix (as in the movie [read] Keywords: admin
, domino
, lotus
, R5
, sntt
, email
, server
, smtp
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SNTT: How to set INI parameters from console and view a list of configuration parameters
Thu, Dec 28th 2006 12:00a Michael V Brown Ever sat down at a Domino Console and needed to check an INI parameter or needed to change an INI parameter but you did not have access to the OS of the Domino Server (or didn't feel like creating a remote connection to the OS just to check an INI parameter)? I have used this command most often when viewing a Domino Console through the Notes Admin Client and needed to either implement a debug parameter or needed to check and see what debug or other parameters were set. When you are at a Dom [read] Keywords: admin
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Prints in the Sand
Wed, Dec 27th 2006 3:00a Michael V Brown Most people have heard the poem, "Footprints in the Sand". This is similiar but more enjoyable. One night, I had a wondrous dream; One set of footprints there was seen. The footprints of my precious Lord, But mine were not along the shore. But then some stranger prints appeared, And I asked the Lord, "What have we here?" "Those prints are large and round and neat, But, Lord, they are too big for feet." "My child," He said in somber tones. "For miles I carried you alone. I chall [read] Keywords:
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Know your Common Cents?
Tue, Dec 26th 2006 5:53a Michael V Brown Here's a fun website to test how well you are at recognizing your "Common Cents". See if you can guess the write one, no fair cheating. http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/common_cents/index.html [read] Keywords:
